Reports add to trauma of abused

3:02 AM,
Apr. 1, 2014

Written by

Elliott Robinson

It was with a heavy heart and a sense of outrage that I saw private details of abused children's lives along with the links to the sheriff's detailed search warrant published prominently by so many of our local media outlets. With the publishing of these traumatizing personal details, the children were subject to one more injustice, this time at the hands of the media outlets that made this choice.

Our humanity should call on us to heal wounds, not sensationalize the details of a deeply private tragedy. Though the children's names were not published, our community and our schools are not always ...